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LHC: 125 GeV? Since Granada, evidence is accumulating that there is a 125 GeV Higgs-like object being discovered at the LHC  Is it real? Will it hold up with more data? The community is abuzz ….  Is it a Higgs? What are its properties?  What else might the LHC reveal?  What might this “discovery” mean for physics at the TeV scale – and beyond?

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Linear Collider We all recognize that the physics case for a linear collider must be built on the information that the LHC provides  The LHC experiments will perform better than predicted  The LHC will also be upgraded – In intensity and perhaps even in energy What value will be added by a linear collider?  What will we learn from its precision?

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Linear Collider Intense discussions are underway ….  On the arxiv, ever day ….  At Linear Collider Workshops – In Korea this week; in the US in October  In the working groups that are shaping the European Strategy and the next KEK five- year plan  In preparations for a Snowmass Workshop – Scheduled for June 2013

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CLIC and ILC Two technologies ….  The ILC will be ready to propose in 2013 – The GDE/RD produced an RDR in 2008. They are on track to release their TDR/DBD in summer of 2013  CLIC will be ready later – The CLIC Collaboration is finishing up its CDR; final report with cost information this summer – CLIC is aiming for an implementation plan later in the decade, perhaps 2016

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ILCSC The ILC faces the immediate challenge  The ILCSC, the GDE and the RD will disappear with the delivery of validated TDR/DBD in 2013 – Their mandates will have expired – but their job will not be done. It will still be necessary to Advance the SCRF R&D and industrialization Complete the system tests Further the accelerator design and integration Continue detector R&D  What will take their place?

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ILCSC We need a new structure, one that is  Robust – To withstand international politics and the wait for the LHC – To carry out the necessary R&D, build the physics case, and even to unite the community  Nimble – To move quickly when LHC results arrive – To respond appropriately if and when a nation steps forward with a bid to host

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ILCSC We’d like a structure with  A broad reach – To pull together the ILC and CLIC communities Recognizing and respecting the many accomplishments – both technical and sociological – that have been made to date  A light touch – To preserve the present strengths of both projects – To match smoothly onto existing activities And yet be able to evolve with time into a new organization

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IFCA ICFA will endorse this proposal in July  It was discussed extensively this winter in Oxford  ICFA has empowered the ILCSC to speak for the new Linear Collider Board until it is inaugurated – To that end, ICFA has extended the ILCSC mandate until mid 2013  Likewise, ICFA has empowered the GDE to speak for the post-GDE LC (SCRF) organization – ICFA has also extended the GDE and RD mandates

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LC Organization Linear Collider Director  Responsible for leading the global effort towards realizing a linear collider and its detectors – Science, technology, outreach, organization  Responsible for representing the LC to the world – Scientific community, government officials, industry, general public  Appointed by ICFA – Internationally known and respected physicist

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LC Organization Associate Director, SCRF Accelerator  Responsible for worldwide technical activities that advance the SCRF linear collider – Build on the work of the GDE  Initially, he/she will – Coordinate R&D on SCRF – Complete system tests started in the GDE era – Further accelerator design and integration – Prepare for industrialization of SCRF cavities

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LC Organization Associate Director, Two-Beam Accelerator  This piece of the Directorate will evolve from the present CLIC Collaboration …. – Not as time critical …. Regional Coordinators/Directors  Will interface with regional authorities, as at present in GDE

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LC Organization Timeline  ICFA is conducting search for LC Director On track to finish soon  ILCSC and LC Director will search for – Associate Director for SCRF Accelerator – Associate Director for Physics and Detectors Search to start soon, with appointments this year, perhaps as early as this summer  ICFA will stand up Linear Collider Board – Process to start this summer

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Other Activities ILCSC is creating a Site Criteria Working Group to determine technical site criteria  For either choice of technology …. – Two members from each region, chair Don Hartill – Report in six- to twelve months …. GDE is producing a document describing Project Implementation Planning  Contains the GDE’s distilled wisdom on global projects. Valuable far beyond HEP ….

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Other Activities FALC is aware of these activities  It supports the general thrust – But emphasizing the need to build the physics case from LHC results …. We in the LC community must develop that case!  We need to convince many people …. – Our LHC colleagues and our fellow scientists – Our government officials and our fellow citizens ….  We start today!